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HOUR ONE: "Avian obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 01:59:01
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We look at some names of famous people that, when you pronounce them correctly, can let people know you're an expert... or a snob.
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Author Emma Törzs talks about "Ink Blood Sister Scribe", a nominee for this year's Minnesota Book Award
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 08:29
Author Naomi Kritzer talks about the Minnesota Book Award nominee "Liberty's Daughter"
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 09:16
On the next episode of the show, you know if you're like me every once in a while, you wish you were more lucky than you are. But the truth is, luc...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 5
Some communities build stories together through the traditions they maintain. Today, we'll visit a community and it's chili cookoff.
Bought by WVPE, KCNP, KTXK, KSJE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more
- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 8
On the next episode of the show, stories about stories. Stories about the telling of stories, why they're important and why people love to tell the...
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, Angelica Community Radio, WVPE, KCNP, KTXK and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 9
Stories by Diane Ferlatte and Bil Lepp and an original spy thriller
Bought by KSJE, KECG, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 7
Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVTF and more
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 13
Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 58:58
On the next episode of the show, a silly story from the great West Virginia tall tale teller, Bil Lepp. It's a story called Fire! Fire! Pants on Li...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 5
On the next episode, sibling relationships can be among the most important we have, but they don't come without sibling rivalry or jealously. We're...
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 6
On the next episode of the show, Philadelphia storyteller and musician Charlotte Blake Alston joins us for a version of a story from American folk ...
Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KSJE and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: "Telling A Life" - How do you tell the story of your life? Songwriter Patti Smith says try writing "about nothing." HOUR TWO: "The Powe...
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 52:17
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Laura Kasischke discusses her journey to writing fiction. Now the author of nine novels, she ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week on On Story we’ll hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright on his book God Save Texas and the Hulu mini-series he adapted from ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
On this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss t...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 53:58
HOUR ONE: "The Power Of Pleasure And Joy" - Joy, pleasure and delight feel good. But are they also politically powerful? HOUR TWO: "Difficult Sum...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Outside The Mental Illness Box" - There must be another way to treat mental illness. Exercise? Horror movies? LSD? This hour, think outs...
- Added: Feb 14, 2020
- Length: 01:58:57
HOUR ONE: "Guilt Tripping" - From our diets to our accomplishments, none of us are perfect. So why do we feel so guilty? HOUR TWO: "Locked Up" - ...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 01:58:57
HOUR ONE: "New Voices In Native Writing" - Tommy Orange and Terese Mailhot are bringing a new perspective to Native American writing. But can you c...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Difficult Summer Beach Reads" - The summer reading lists are here. But if you have time for a new book, why not read something more subs...
- Added: Jul 12, 2019
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Religion Without Doctrine" - Is spiritual experience, not belief, the basis of religion? This hour, a curious look at faith. HOUR TWO:...
- Added: Jul 05, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
